Global warming already debunked

There are times, Oscar Wilde wrote, when it becomes more than a duty to speak one’s mind; it becomes a pleasure. One of those times was Oct. 27, when the Star-Phoenix uncritically printed “nation in hot seat,” a farrago of flim-flam so outrageous as to leave one wondering what has happened to responsible journalism.

It reads like a sales pitch for corporations which are in the government subsidy business. Doesn’t anybody check facts anymore?

The whole article is based on assumptions which have been debunked long ago. Who would have thought we’d ever again see a phrase like “the current global warming trajectory?”

It’s just newspeak for the infamous “hockey stick” curve which, as long ago as 2006, was exposed as coming from a computer program which predicted climate catastrophe no matter what data were fed into it.

Today, it has been confirmed as fraudulent by 20 years without any net global warming at all.

Canada, unlike the world, is experiencing regional warming due to the 60-year ocean cycle called the Atlantic Decadal Oscillation, which pushes summer ice out of the Arctic and exposes more open water to the sun. As it has in the past, it will come to an end. It is irrational to confuse it with the global climate.

The article raises the question “if they think the globe is warming, what else have they got wrong?” Any rational reader will conclude “just about everything.”

Geoff Galloway, Saskatoon